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There has been instances of popular and well meaning projects become hijacked by hostile actors. A recent notable example is xz, but there’s also event-stream npm package a few years ago that got infected with Bitcoin stealing code.

Just because a protect looks good now doesn’t mean it won’t turn bad in the future.

And not only would you need to audit the project. You also need to audit all of its dependencies as well. The xz vulnerability made it in to SSH. Who would think about looking into xz for vulnerabilities?

The amount of effort it would take to fake this for very little benefit is enormous.

The benefit of installing back doors can be enormous.

It uses a glitch that’s only possible on Wii Virtual Console as well. All other versions are 1x A press any%.

https://youtu.be/MFxJuq3FRgI

Nobody would read it even after it was published. No scientist have time to read other’s papers. They’re too busy writing their own papers. This mistake probably made it more read than 99% of all other scientific papers.

It’s quite often I have to second guess whether the code is correctly intended or not. Is this line supposed to be part of this if block or should I remove that extra indentation? It’s not always entirely obvious. Extra troublesome during refactors.

In other languages it’s always obvious when a line is incorrectly indented.

A property can have the wrong indentation and it would still be a syntactically correct yaml. It’s hard to distinguish whether a line is wrongly indented or not. Copy and paste a line and mistakenly use the wrong indentation, and the entire production breaks.

In json it’s much harder to do similar mistakes.

I would imagine a similar result. Like how the word “cartoon” activates one particular feature. And if you identify this feature you can control the level of “cartooniness” by tweaking the particular feature.

You’re reading the title too literally. “Mind” is only mentioned once in the entire article, and that’s in the title.

Even without that extra finger it still has that uncanny AI vibe

This doesn’t sound like a thing enterprises are going to accept. It’s like spyware but with extra buzzwords.

I know people here love Linux, but I think most IT departments in the world would go for Apple first.

They will say it’s for “security reasons”

No one is investing in regular currencies. You’re supposed to use it to buy stuff.

And after each instruction, the CPU go to the next instruction

Ember restored

Anything is a goto in disguise when you think about it

Google. I usually find what I want with it, although it has gotten worse over time.

I tried DDG a few years ago and only found it worse. Like, there was a clear performance impact with me using DDG vs me using Google.

Everything is real on the internet

Then it’s just more easily abused by SEO. “Best” according to who? Votes? Number of views? Page rank? All numbers can be manipulated.

If anything, it just used as justification for bad behavior. “My genocide is completely justified. It’s what God wanted!”

Not sure how that can implemented, but I’m sure it will only lead to great amounts of SEO abuse. It only works if everybody are acting in good faith.

The article is about using computers to discover new conjectures (mathematical statements that are not yet known to be true or false). The conjecture can be then later be formally proven (or disproven) by humans.

Sounds like a good match for me. Formulating conjectures is about finding an interesting pattern and argue that this pattern holds true. Computers are getting increasingly better at pattern matching, so why not use them?

Title is a bit clickbaity by calling it AI.